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the world.
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| 1) | The black and white component of a video feed is called the: |
| | chrominance
composite
luminance
SECAM
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| 2) | The term "wide screen television" refers to: |
| | video formats with a 4 to 3 aspect ratio
video formats with a 16 to 9 aspect ratio
video formats with 525 lines
video formats with 625 lines
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| 3) | For the past few decades, the main television standard used to broadcast television to homes in Australia, Britain and Germany has been: |
| | PAL composite analogue video
NTSC composite analogue video
4:2:2 component serial digital video
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| 4) | Standard colour televisions reproduce white images by: |
| | using a white beam and turning the colour beams off
using specific proportions of red, green and blue
using specific proportions of yellow, cyan and magenta
any of the above
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| 5) | The term "Bars and Tone" refers to: |
| | a video and audio test signal
a digital video signal format
a sporting event
a video picture
a video effect
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| 6) | Waveform Monitors are used to check: |
| | video waveforms
scene changes
video refresh rates
colour temperature
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| 7) | Vectorscopes are used to check: |
| | the luminance signal
the chrominance signal
voltage levels
colour temperature
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| 8) | If you reduce the blue level on a video picture, an average scene would appear to be: |
| | pinker
a darker blue
yellower
magenta
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| 9) | If you desaturated a video picture of a red object, it would appear to be: |
| | pink
a darker red
cyan
a richer shade of red
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| 10) | A light which is described as having a "colour temperature" of 10,000 degrees Kelvin is going to give off light: |
| | which is perfectly white
that has a greenish look to it
with a spectral content at the red end of the scale
with a spectral content at the blue end of the scale
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| 11) | A light which is described as having a "colour temperature" of 2,000 degrees Kelvin is going to give off light: |
| | which is perfectly white
that has a greenish look to it
with a spectral content at the red end of the scale
with a spectral content at the blue end of the scale
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| 12) | The colour component of a video signal is called the: |
| | brightness
luminance
chrominance
pigmentation
colouration
hue
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| 13) | People with extremely good hearing should be able to hear frequencies in the approximate range of: |
| | 20Hz to 3kHz
20Hz to 5kHz
20Hz to 20kHz
20Hz to 30kHz
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| 14) | Analogue radio and television audio has a bandwidth of: |
| | 10,000 Hz
15,000 Hz
20,000 Hz
48,000 Hz
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| 15) | Doubling the strength of an audio signal could be described as an increase of: |
| | 2 dB
2 dB of the power level or 3 dB of the voltage level
2 dB of the voltage level or 3 dB of the power level
3 dB of the power level or 6 dB of the voltage level
3 dB of the voltage level or 6 dB of the power level
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| 16) | To monitor the levels of an audio signal going onto a recordable tape, the best meter to use would be: |
| | a PPM
a VU meter
Either 1 or 2
Your ears
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| 17) | The microphone powering standard known as "A-B" is also called: |
| | "P" power
"T" power
Either "P" or "T" power
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| 18) | Stereophonic microphones pick up stereo sound by using: |
| | one microphone for the left channel and one for the right
one microphone to pick up a mono channel and one for the additional stereo information
neither 1 or 2
either 1 or 2
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| 19) | When talking about audio signal levels: |
| | Mic Level will be lower than Line Level
Mic Level will be the same as Line Level
Mic Level will be higher than Line Level
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| 20) | The most common connector used for interfacing broadcast quality audio signals is called: |
| | an RCA connector
a BNC connector
an XLR connector
a Triax connector
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| 21) | If a particular PAL picture is identified with a timecode reading of 01:02:08:18, then the picture that occurs eight frames later (assuming it's an unbroken recording) will be: |
| | 01:02:08:24
01:02:14:18
01:02:09:01
01:02:16:18
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| 22) | Timecode is used to: |
| | identify video pictures to the accuracy of one frame
allow a video editor to specify edit points
synchronise one video or audio device with another
work out the duration of recorded events
all of the above
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| 23) | The control track is used to: |
| | start the video recorder
control the longitudinal motion of the videotape
stop the tape from causing "head-clogs"
all of the above
none of the above
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| 24) | When in pause mode, a videotape recorder: |
| | continuously "reads" the same frame of video and displays it on the monitor
wears away at the videotape, thus permanently damaging it
wears away at the video heads, thus permanently damaging them
all of the above
none of the above
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| 25) | In a modern video camera, light is converted into electricity by: |
| | the beam splitter
the iris
the lens
the CCD chip array
the shutter
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| 26) | It is important to perform a white balance: |
| | whenever you power-up a camera
whenever the lighting conditions change
whenever you perform a black balance
all of the above
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| 27) | The term for the range of distance within which focus is acceptable is: |
| | Focal Distance
Depth-of-Field
Relative Aperture
All of the above
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| 28) | The tally light on a camera is red when a camera is: |
| | "live to air" or recording
properly focused
about to be switched "to air"
in standby mode
all of the above
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| 29) | Which of the following camera setup combinations is wrong? |
| | Small Format Camera, Tripod, Pan and Tilt Head
Miniature Camera, Dolly, Triangle
ENG Camera, Videocassette, Battery
Large Format Camera, Pedestal, Triaxial Cable
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| 30) | Which of the following statements is true? |
| | Cables should be bent at a radius sharper than ten times the cable diameter.
When possible, power, video and audio cables should be run bundled together side by side.
Excess cable slack should be left, rather than pulling cables taut.
Damaged cables and connectors can always be fixed with gaffer tape.
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